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Jesse Jackson to Obama: Come home and tackle Chicago’s gun crisis

“The president’s voice is so urgently needed here,” said Jackson, arguing that Obama’s presence would help draw attention to the complexity of the economic and social problems affecting areas like Chicago that compound problems related to gun violence. “[That alone] would illuminate the condition.”…

“You cannot police poverty. You cannot police broken dreams, you cannot police aspirations,” said Jackson. “This cannot be dealt with on just a citywide level. We have drugs and guns coming in, and jobs going out. In most of the areas where these shootings are taking place, the unemployment rate is between 45% and 55%.”

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Forget tackling that crisis, stand it up in front of a firing squad. Literally. Misuse a tool whose purposes are to intimidate or kill – and the only hunting is for people in $hitcago so spare me that argument – you are a walking menace to every lawful person.

Interesting request from the Reverend Jackson, as most have always considered him to be part of the problem. His ideology has cultivated the culture that is thriving.
– Instead of promoting fathers being in the home, he promotes a victim-of-racism mentality.
– Instead of promoting a diligent work ethic, he promotes a minimalist work ethic, and the declaration of “racism” when that ethic is questioned by the employer.
– Along this same line, he promotes entitlements over earning.
– Instead of promoting racial harmony, he promotes exceptionalism and elitism for blacks – this, of course, is racist.
– Instead of promoting a desire to be a productive member of society, he convinces black people that they are victims of society.
– Instead of recognizing and agreeing with the black-on-black and black-on-other-races crime problems, he fights what he claims are racial stereotypes when non-blacks bring this up.
Think about it. If the inner-city/urban culture were to stop the crime, excel in their careers, have intact families, and be positive contributors to society all while achieving harmony with other races, Jesse would be out of a job.

When Bill Cosby suggested a few years ago that the problems in the inner city could due to generation after generation of unwed mothers raising kids without a strong fatherly presence in the home, Jackson nicely told him to be quiet – that sort of talk won’t get you big federal grants.

There was a post on a conservative site (can’t remember which) that noted not only the endemic gun violence in the inner cities but also the recent Sandy Hook shooting had a common factor: absent fathers. (Adam Lanza’s father mailed a child support check and didn’t see his son for the past few years. Even if the kid didn’t want to see his remarried dad, Mr. Lanza should have come anyway.)

Well, that tends to happen when extortionists like Jackson are always hanging around, ready to intimidate local businesses. A government that’s nothing more than a legalized crime ring doesn’t help either.

Obama: Rev, STFU. This is my home for the next 4 years. What happened, old man? You tried for my present home years ago, but lost, didn’t ya? Hahahahaha. You just plain jealous. And don’t even think that I’ve forgotten that derogatory TV comment you made about me, when you thought that the audio was out. I don’t forgive and I don’t forget.

In most of the areas where these shootings are taking place, the unemployment rate is between 45% and 55%.”

And the young people can’t get jobs because they can barely read, their speech is incomprehensible, and they have no critical thinking skills (or any other marketable skills) because the Chicago public schools are run by corrupt and incompetent unions, which are a key constituency of the Dim party. The very same Dim party which keeps so many of Chicago’s residents dependent on big government welfare hand-outs, and which encourages blacks and hispanics to believe in their perpetual victimhood.

The problem in Chicago isn’t the guns, it’s the idiotic and counter-productive policies promoted by corrupt and clueless Dim-o-crats like Jesse Jackson.

And what is Obama going to do? Wave his hands and wish hard and make it all go away?

Doubtful. When the gangs that are shooting each other up are probably discreet (Percentage of drug sales, protection, prostitution, etc) contributors to the Chicago Machine and/or specific campaign coffers.

Yeah. I don’t know if this situation is even fixable at this point. What can you do to break that cycle? Someone drops out of school at 16, his options are minimum wage job or to make thousands in cash dealing drugs. Guy has no life skills, is barely literate, never knew his dad, and may or may not have a child of his own.

This is what 50 years of dependency culture does to people. It took many generations to get here… leaving the political aspect of it aside, is it even possible to change that? And how many generations would it take?

1. Ban everyone living in public and section 8 housing from possessing guns upon penalty of Death, except

2. Require everyone over the age of 35 living in public and section 8 housing who is without a felony conviction to carry guns, and supply them letters of marque and reprisal signed by the governor to enforce point #1, and then

3. Withdraw police for a year.

Giving anyone over the age of 35, who has made it thus far without a felony conviction, a license to kill would rack up fewer deaths (in the long run) than currently begotten from the feral gang culture.

Bill Cosby might be too tired to talk about this stuff since he was slapped down by so many in 2004 for his but if you are referring to the “I’m tired by Bill Cosby” essay, he didn’t write it, a MA state senator did.

“The president’s voice is so urgently needed here,” said Jackson, arguing that Obama’s presence would help draw attention to the complexity of the economic and social problems affecting areas like Chicago that compound problems related to gun violence. “[That alone] would illuminate the condition.”

Even Jerusalem, when visited in person by the Son of God himself, killed him. What can Obama do?

Yeah. I don’t know if this situation is even fixable at this point. What can you do to break that cycle? Someone drops out of school at 16, his options are minimum wage job or to make thousands in cash dealing drugs. Guy has no life skills, is barely literate, never knew his dad, and may or may not have a child of his own.

Timin203 on February 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM

Exactly. The author of Too Young to Die uses this to make some pointed accusations at treating young people as fodder for junk jobs.

Hey drug-legalizers: try to imagine how many people will choose honest work when they don’t even have to worry about being arrested for selling crack or pot or WTF-ever. Do you REALLY want that?